Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 21 and 22 -- Testimonies of H. Pachter, Y. Gurfein, N. Zabludowicz, L. Wells

Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 21 and 22 -- Testimonies of H. Pachter, Y. Gurfein, N. Zabludowicz, L. Wells 

Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 21 and 22 -- Testimonies of H. Pachter, Y. Gurfein, N. Zabludowicz, L. Wells 

Sessions 21 and 22. Court is not in session. Court officials interact; Adolf Eichmann enters his booth; Attorney General Gideon Hausner and Defense Attorney Dr. Robert Servatius converse; and Servatius exchanges information with Eichmann. The Judges enter the courtroom and there is a blip at 00:04.52. Witness Hirsch (Zvi) Pachter discusses Nazi treatment in Hrubieszow, a town near Chelm:"They took hold of a man... they hit [him] on the head with their rifle butts... They kept on asking each other: 'How many did you manage to kill by shooting..." Blip at 00:08:19. Witness Ya'Akov Gurfein describes Nazi treatment and Jewish morale in Poland 1943. Hausner asks about Gurfein's escape to Palestine. After a blip at 00:10:56, Judge Benjamin Halevi questions Gurfein about family separation in Belzec. A man in the audience cries out,"blood houn" at the Accused; the audience member is removed from the courtroom. Witness Noach Zabludowicz is on the stand, following a blip at 00:11:51. He details repeated beatings by the Nazis; he was kicked, hit, and subjected to electric shock torture. Blip at 00:16:53. Halevi questions Zabeudowicz about specific comments from his earlier testimony. Blip at 00:21:12. The court interpreter reads a document about the Final Solution signed by Eichmann. Blip at 00:28:48. Hausner questions Leon Weliczker Wells; Wells discusses his experiences with the Nazis. He participated in a small group uprising but many were shot, and the rest returned to the Janowska concentration camps. The Nazis made Wells and his fellow Jews march; Wells knew he was walking to his death:"Everybody got a shovel and we started to dig our own grave... two walked down to the grave, had to lie down and were shot" Wells continues to recount his story.